Menasseh Ben Israel petitions Oliver Cromwell in 1657 for the readmittance of the Jews to England following their expulsion by King Edward I in 1290. Manoel Dias Soeiro, 1604 -1657, aka Menasseh ben Israel and Menasheh ben Yossef ben Yisrael. Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam in 1626. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.